Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.